Trump impeachment acquittal not end of legal troubles

Legislators call for an independent commission, with Trump still facing possible criminal charges for US Capitol riot.

Donald Trump’s acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the United States Capitol violence does not spell an end to possible accountability – or legal troubles – for the former president. Trump’s actions and words leading up to the deadly January 6 violence, in which rioters stormed the seat of the US legislature as Congress met to certify the election victory of President Joe Biden, garnered more bipartisan support for conviction than any previous Senate impeachment trial. Legislators from both parties have since increasingly called for Congress to set up an independent commission, like that created after the 9/11 attacks.